Alot of times this mimics the sale of college text books. They change the numbers of the problems and add a few pages so they can sell a new edition, it can get quite blatant sometimes. Well in this case they are adding compatibility to the format they create, so that other people with "obsolete" software will also have the need to upgrade. Sounds cynical, but it's good business practice. They also do add genuine code upgrades and functionality, but as you said, not much is really of a huge amount of use to pretty much everyone.
Word Perfect never left the confines of my heart. I love that software dearly. And what about OpenOffice? I say it's a perfectly good alternate right after Word Perfect and right before Clippy.
How many AOL Chatroom members does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to replace the lightbulb and one to make sure that the other person doesn't say "nipple"
I guess it depends on what film you are burning. If you are fair-using "A Wonderful Life" or "Indiana Jones" then the picture will be pretty good, but if you bootleg crossroads, it may suck.
The article does awknowledge of this rivalry...can anyone let me know what this battle ground looks like? I have not been following it for a while, but it was to my knowledge that DVD-R and the occasional combo drive were the ones that were more likely to be adopted in the future. I told myself I would wait until one came out the victor but now as far as I can tell, it's still up in the air. Advice anyone?
Also note: this 1x1 image, as well as not being able to load in lynx, is also not able to load using your microwave.
Unless you are using one of those web-capable microwaves, in which case I guess you can.
I have had the dubious honor of being an individual who has superglued myself to a live 220v wire at the age of 14, when I still often forgot to shut off power before making changes to electrical projects. Sure, he may not have died from it, but you get other serious long term problems that screw you up for life. I'm guesing his heart popped.
Here at Drexel University our lab computers have been effected, and we couldn't access our data properly. The funny thing is that our president (Pappy) today was right outside with three segways touting out technological proweress, rolling along to Born to be Wild blaring in the background.
All the tech in the world doens't matter if you don't use it right.
Sure code that is peer reviewed by a large group of coders does get better over time, but just because this is/. let's not shortchange the benifits of closed source.
The programmers will all know (or should) what the main points of the program should be directed towards, will all follow similar protocol, and in alot of cases, all work togeather; and because of this may be able to write tighter code due to being able to be with the person who origionally coded the program. Pages and pages of documentation usually is no match for that.
I'm not bashing open source, I prefer it, but let's not go critiquing closed source for no reason, there is enough valid reasons for that.
Also, not many countries besides the US actually goes exactly by what a recipie tells you to use. Most countries it is just a guide, and you do it by eye.
It's nice to know that people spend a whole lot of good time religeously studying something like Klingon, instead of some useless subject, like Portugese or Japanese. I think I will spend the next few years of my life learning how to speak fluent Modem.
I think it just goes to exemplify human nature.If you can benifit and get away with it, regardless of the morality, people will. Still up for auction is the issue of if it is truely wrong, but for living in a society of rules, one must obey them, or attempt to get that changed.
You can sue one file trading application after another, but those are just bullets. The smoking gun is human nature.
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Alot of times this mimics the sale of college text books. They change the numbers of the problems and add a few pages so they can sell a new edition, it can get quite blatant sometimes. Well in this case they are adding compatibility to the format they create, so that other people with "obsolete" software will also have the need to upgrade. Sounds cynical, but it's good business practice. They also do add genuine code upgrades and functionality, but as you said, not much is really of a huge amount of use to pretty much everyone.
Word Perfect never left the confines of my heart. I love that software dearly. And what about OpenOffice? I say it's a perfectly good alternate right after Word Perfect and right before Clippy.
How many AOL Chatroom members does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to replace the lightbulb and one to make sure that the other person doesn't say "nipple"
I guess it depends on what film you are burning. If you are fair-using "A Wonderful Life" or "Indiana Jones" then the picture will be pretty good, but if you bootleg crossroads, it may suck.
The article does awknowledge of this rivalry...can anyone let me know what this battle ground looks like? I have not been following it for a while, but it was to my knowledge that DVD-R and the occasional combo drive were the ones that were more likely to be adopted in the future. I told myself I would wait until one came out the victor but now as far as I can tell, it's still up in the air. Advice anyone?
Unless you are using one of those web-capable microwaves, in which case I guess you can. Unless, of course, you are running lynx on your microwave.
Also note: this 1x1 image, as well as not being able to load in lynx, is also not able to load using your microwave.
Unless you are using one of those web-capable microwaves, in which case I guess you can.
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Also note: this 1x1 image, as well as not being able to load in lynx, is also not able to load using your microwave.
If I had points you'd be getting them. +1 FUNNY!
I have had the dubious honor of being an individual who has superglued myself to a live 220v wire at the age of 14, when I still often forgot to shut off power before making changes to electrical projects. Sure, he may not have died from it, but you get other serious long term problems that screw you up for life. I'm guesing his heart popped.
I have to agree
Here at Drexel University our lab computers have been effected, and we couldn't access our data properly. The funny thing is that our president (Pappy) today was right outside with three segways touting out technological proweress, rolling along to Born to be Wild blaring in the background. All the tech in the world doens't matter if you don't use it right.
Sure code that is peer reviewed by a large group of coders does get better over time, but just because this is /. let's not shortchange the benifits of closed source.
The programmers will all know (or should) what the main points of the program should be directed towards, will all follow similar protocol, and in alot of cases, all work togeather; and because of this may be able to write tighter code due to being able to be with the person who origionally coded the program. Pages and pages of documentation usually is no match for that.
I'm not bashing open source, I prefer it, but let's not go critiquing closed source for no reason, there is enough valid reasons for that.
Also, not many countries besides the US actually goes exactly by what a recipie tells you to use. Most countries it is just a guide, and you do it by eye.
You ARE alone.
It's nice to know that people spend a whole lot of good time religeously studying something like Klingon, instead of some useless subject, like Portugese or Japanese. I think I will spend the next few years of my life learning how to speak fluent Modem.
I'm guessing a multi-million dollar orbiting telescope might help.
As stupid as that post was...at least there is a delicious play on words. Get it? SERVES them right? Attack on their servers? Get it?
This thread isn't a discussion, it's a (bad) punchline contest. I likey.
I wholeheartedly agree. However I disagree with the modding. Not trusting the telemarket industry is hardly insightful!
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Wow, talk about covering all your bases! It reads like my Humanities short answer essay responses.
its 2000/NT, XP, 98/ME, 95.
I think it just goes to exemplify human nature.If you can benifit and get away with it, regardless of the morality, people will. Still up for auction is the issue of if it is truely wrong, but for living in a society of rules, one must obey them, or attempt to get that changed.
You can sue one file trading application after another, but those are just bullets. The smoking gun is human nature.
Caution, popups? This isn't a frickin' health hazard we are talking about.
I also feel a little dumber having read your post. And that's saying alot.